My latest book was undoubtedly kick-started by my previous
appearance on Rune Soup in Dec 2019. Very satisfying to effectively launch it
from there now. Talked with Gordon yesterday, the 15th, 6 months on from the
anniv of the Tor death of Abbot Whiting, the time when Boris was in the area
and my brain went into overdrive. It's a satisfying cycle. And with the arrival
of the book, all kinds of further weirdness has occurred featuring Jung and
Robert Anton Wilson. I talk about it all here.
Saturday, 16 May 2020
Tuesday, 12 May 2020
History and Myth now available
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My new book is now available. The timing is very satisfying. It was 6 months ago this week
that BoJo visited Wells on the exact anniversary of Glastonbury Abbey's Abbot Whiting’s trial there and my
brain went into a Henry VIII comparison.
The resulting brainstorm was seemingly finished twice before the
eventual ending. I have 2 sections written during the lockdown and reflective
of the Glastonbury depths stirred by this strange times.
From the back cover:
HISTORY AND MYTH
The writings of
historians reflect the trends of the times in which they were written. This in
turn can make a difference to how a society understands itself and the events
it experiences and the responses it makes to them.
Here is a Glastonbury-centred
consideration of history from the perspectives of Arnold Toynbee and Titus
Livius, of mystical experiences, cycles, portents, and of astrology.
Includes:
The Oddity of
British Prime Ministers.
The Great
Conjunction Cycle 1284-1518-2020:
Capricorn Pan,
Cronos Saturn, Pluto Hades.
Glastonbury
Abbey.
Henry VIII,
William Rufus, Edward I, Edward III, Richard III.
Richard Whiting,
St Dunstan, Frederick Bligh Bond.
Joseph of
Arimathea King Arthur, Virgin Mary, the Holy Grail.
Lord of Misrule,
the Fisher King.
The Pursuit of
the Millennium and Extinction Rebellion.
Book of
Revelation template, Romance of the Golden Age,
Age of the Holy Spirit.
Dissolution of
the Monasteries, Pilgrimage of Grace, Peasant’s Revolt,
Anabaptist Munster Rebellion, Gordon Riots,
Brexit.
Glastonbury
Plague Diary.
The Victoria
Park Lughnasadh 2012 Olympic Caper:
a Psychogeographical Feast.
Featuring:
Boris Johnson,
Jan Bockelson, William Blake, James Joyce,
Joachim of
Fiore, Frances Yates, Marsilio Ficino, Margaret Murray,
Albrecht Durer,
Scipio Aemelianus, Marguerite Porete.
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